1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:02,920 Speaker 1: Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve Camray. 2 00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:07,520 Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to stuff you should know 3 00:00:08,119 --> 00:00:16,400 Speaker 1: from house Stuff Works dot com. Hey, and welcome to 4 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:20,640 Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, There's Chuck, Charles W. Bryant. 5 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:24,279 Speaker 1: Happy leaf ericson Day, Happy leaf ericson Day? And that 6 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:27,840 Speaker 1: is today is leaf ericson Day. And if you remember, Josh, 7 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:32,760 Speaker 1: in our recent podcast on the first Americans May, we 8 00:00:32,880 --> 00:00:34,239 Speaker 1: had a little joke. Do you want to hear it? 9 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:39,760 Speaker 1: Let's go back. Okay, I'm gonna go back music. Columbus 10 00:00:39,800 --> 00:00:42,160 Speaker 1: was beaten by a good five years by the Norse 11 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:46,479 Speaker 1: who found who were in Newfoundland. That's not what we 12 00:00:46,479 --> 00:00:50,880 Speaker 1: were taught in history. And definitely there's no Norse day. No, No, 13 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:53,800 Speaker 1: that'd be awesome. No leaf ericson Day. I don't think 14 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:58,520 Speaker 1: there is not in the US. So there you have it, 15 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:01,280 Speaker 1: and there is a leaf eric today and we both 16 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:02,800 Speaker 1: have a little egg on our faces because we didn't 17 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:06,200 Speaker 1: know that, and it is today, and it's very ironic. Yeah, 18 00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:08,760 Speaker 1: But people that wrote in said, I'm assuming it was 19 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:10,319 Speaker 1: a joke that you were I know, that's how we 20 00:01:10,319 --> 00:01:12,720 Speaker 1: get away with or I'm going to write the mall 21 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:15,640 Speaker 1: back and say you got it, got the joke. Yeah, 22 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:18,560 Speaker 1: there was actually one guy, if you love delicious Irony, 23 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:22,120 Speaker 1: who said he was making his leaf ericson day Viking 24 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:25,679 Speaker 1: hat while he was listening to that podcast. Yea, where 25 00:01:25,720 --> 00:01:28,240 Speaker 1: the Clothes the first American? So yeah, as you said, 26 00:01:28,280 --> 00:01:30,959 Speaker 1: happy leaf ericcs and day to utes. So now for 27 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:33,959 Speaker 1: your intro, which I'm sure you had planned before I 28 00:01:33,959 --> 00:01:38,600 Speaker 1: eviscerated you know you pretty much you eviscerated me. Really, 29 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:42,000 Speaker 1: maybe it's okay? Well, Chuck, how old your house? Man? 30 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:46,319 Speaker 1: My house was built in nineteen thirty two, I think 31 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:49,560 Speaker 1: thirty two. Very nice old house. Yeah, the one I 32 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:52,960 Speaker 1: live in from nineteen twenty. I believe you always got 33 00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:55,000 Speaker 1: to show me up. I know. I'm sorry, buddy, Okay, 34 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:57,760 Speaker 1: it wasn't intentional, you own I rant. How about that? 35 00:01:58,160 --> 00:02:00,520 Speaker 1: All right? Well that's the ultimate show up exact. Thank 36 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:03,760 Speaker 1: you for that, Chuck Um. And I've often wondered, like, 37 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:07,680 Speaker 1: what has gone on with this house? There's this mysterious 38 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:13,000 Speaker 1: um tarp that goes across the entire property. A tarp 39 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:15,640 Speaker 1: like a plastic tarp. It's not plastic, it's woven. It 40 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:17,919 Speaker 1: looks like you know what they use for silt fence. 41 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:21,120 Speaker 1: It's just like that, except it's not standing up, and 42 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:24,560 Speaker 1: it's clearly it was purposefully laid down. And my house 43 00:02:24,639 --> 00:02:26,840 Speaker 1: is on a hill, so I've often wondered like, did 44 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:29,440 Speaker 1: they build this over an old dump? But did they 45 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:33,040 Speaker 1: even have dumps like that? In this is under your 46 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:35,920 Speaker 1: found the foundation of your house. It doesn't go into 47 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:38,120 Speaker 1: the foundation, but it goes all throughout the yard. And 48 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:39,720 Speaker 1: like I said, it's on a hill, so it could 49 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:42,960 Speaker 1: be just to prevent erosion or something like I'm too 50 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:45,280 Speaker 1: lazy to ask the landlord what the deal is because 51 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:49,600 Speaker 1: they won't have erosion in n No, they didn't. That 52 00:02:49,639 --> 00:02:55,360 Speaker 1: was that started in the great Erosion Fire of Yeah. Um, 53 00:02:55,520 --> 00:02:58,400 Speaker 1: someone will believe that, probably Happy leaf erricks in day 54 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:01,960 Speaker 1: Chuck YouTube. But my point is is I have no 55 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:03,959 Speaker 1: idea what's going on with my house or what went 56 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:06,519 Speaker 1: in went on in my house. I know it got 57 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:08,639 Speaker 1: a roof like a couple of months ago, and that's 58 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:10,440 Speaker 1: all I know about the house. So the history of 59 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:12,359 Speaker 1: your home is I got a roof a couple of 60 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:14,800 Speaker 1: months ago, exactly as far as I can tell. But 61 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:17,200 Speaker 1: I know some really interesting stuff has gone on there. 62 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:23,120 Speaker 1: Something can't stand for what almost ninety years um and 63 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:27,480 Speaker 1: not have something interesting happening. Agreeing it, you would, you would, hope, right. 64 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:30,240 Speaker 1: And I imagine the same is true for your house, 65 00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:34,800 Speaker 1: like I'm sure there's been squatting that had happened there before. Um, 66 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:37,640 Speaker 1: And I know somebody who could go talk to about this, 67 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:42,840 Speaker 1: and that somebody is your wife. Yes, she wrote this article. 68 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:46,720 Speaker 1: I apologize for that intro. That's all right. Emily wrote 69 00:03:46,720 --> 00:03:49,440 Speaker 1: this article. And she's a freelance writer for how Stuff Works, 70 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:52,960 Speaker 1: proving it's who you know, Josh agreed in order to 71 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:56,760 Speaker 1: get jobs to some extent, Yes, especially if who you 72 00:03:56,800 --> 00:03:59,400 Speaker 1: know is hands down the finest writer at how stuff 73 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:02,840 Speaker 1: Works dot and also has the finest hair. She knows 74 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:06,760 Speaker 1: Robert Lamb. So, Chuck, let's talk about this. Why did 75 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:09,800 Speaker 1: I just mention your wife, baket Chuck, I'm trying to 76 00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:11,840 Speaker 1: keep it on you. I thought we just said because 77 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:14,280 Speaker 1: she wrote this article. Okay, I wasn't listening how to 78 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:16,920 Speaker 1: find the history of your house on house to porks 79 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:20,200 Speaker 1: dot com? Would you come up with? Well? Should I 80 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:22,760 Speaker 1: just get Emily in here? Yeah? We probably should actually 81 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:24,600 Speaker 1: teach you how to make soap and how to find 82 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:27,280 Speaker 1: the history of your house all at once. Uh. Well, 83 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:29,360 Speaker 1: you know, there are certain steps you can take, and 84 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:33,080 Speaker 1: we're going to go through those right now, starting with 85 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:36,599 Speaker 1: talk to your neighbors. This new neighborhood, the neighbors, I 86 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:39,120 Speaker 1: don't know anybody. I don't talk to anybody, you mean, 87 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:40,960 Speaker 1: I just moved in a couple of months ago. But 88 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:43,120 Speaker 1: a classic neighborhood though that you live in it is 89 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:45,840 Speaker 1: very much so. And I assume that there the neighborhood 90 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:49,520 Speaker 1: would be much more community oriented. Everybody's kind of doing 91 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:52,360 Speaker 1: their own thing, you know, everybody like kind of says 92 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:55,440 Speaker 1: hi when you're passing by. But it's also a thoroughfare 93 00:04:55,880 --> 00:04:58,400 Speaker 1: um for people to get from one place another, So 94 00:04:58,440 --> 00:05:00,560 Speaker 1: I think that kind of lends this trans the nature 95 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:03,720 Speaker 1: to it to get people speeding through your neighborhood right exactly, 96 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:06,760 Speaker 1: and everybody's a stranger because of that. Um At the 97 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:09,480 Speaker 1: last neighborhood was it was off of a major thoroughfare 98 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:12,880 Speaker 1: and it was kind of isolated and everybody knew each other. 99 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:15,080 Speaker 1: It was. It was really cool. It reminds me of 100 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:17,920 Speaker 1: a neighborhood that you'd live in as a kid um 101 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:21,240 Speaker 1: because you'd go out and play except playing involved like 102 00:05:21,320 --> 00:05:24,080 Speaker 1: heavy drinking that kind of thing. But like, you had 103 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:27,400 Speaker 1: friends in the neighborhood, right, it was cool like that. Um. 104 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:30,800 Speaker 1: But there were some neighbors that had lived there since 105 00:05:30,839 --> 00:05:33,680 Speaker 1: the seventies that I knew of, um and had spoken to. 106 00:05:33,760 --> 00:05:36,280 Speaker 1: They weren't old timers, but they were I guess they 107 00:05:36,279 --> 00:05:39,440 Speaker 1: had grown up there a little bit. They were like, yeah, 108 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:42,640 Speaker 1: this place used to be a hotbed for meth. There's 109 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:44,440 Speaker 1: like a I found out that there had been a 110 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:47,680 Speaker 1: thriving meth lab just a couple of doors down from 111 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:49,640 Speaker 1: my house, in my old house. Yeah, the one in 112 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:53,200 Speaker 1: East Atlanta. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. So you can learn some 113 00:05:53,279 --> 00:05:56,640 Speaker 1: interesting stuff about your neighborhood just by talking to your 114 00:05:56,640 --> 00:05:59,720 Speaker 1: neighbors exactly. So that's step one. Yeah, that's the easiest 115 00:05:59,720 --> 00:06:01,520 Speaker 1: way to kind of get you get the ball rolling. Right. 116 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:04,760 Speaker 1: Let's say your neighbors, Um, if you try to go 117 00:06:04,839 --> 00:06:07,120 Speaker 1: up to their house and and even if you're greasing 118 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:09,520 Speaker 1: their palms with some cookies, they're they're like, get off 119 00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:12,479 Speaker 1: my property. Where do you go from there? Chuck? Well, 120 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:15,480 Speaker 1: if you want to start your investigation in earnest with records, 121 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:18,200 Speaker 1: you should go find the records, which is at the 122 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:21,280 Speaker 1: County Recorder's Office. And Emily makes a good point. She's 123 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:23,640 Speaker 1: she says that although there's a lot of people who 124 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:26,080 Speaker 1: are into digging up the history of their home, I 125 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:28,719 Speaker 1: gat the impression this is a lot like genealogy to 126 00:06:28,760 --> 00:06:34,120 Speaker 1: some people, UM, that there's not that many resources for 127 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:38,159 Speaker 1: old timey information online. Now you can't find, um, a 128 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:41,000 Speaker 1: lot of these court records. You know, they're housed on 129 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:44,440 Speaker 1: paper in you know, the depths of city hall usually, 130 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:46,800 Speaker 1: and no one has said, hey, maybe we should take 131 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:48,680 Speaker 1: the time to scan these and put them online. Right, 132 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:50,240 Speaker 1: So what are we going to find at the County 133 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:52,919 Speaker 1: Recorder's office. Well, what you want to find is the 134 00:06:52,960 --> 00:06:56,120 Speaker 1: deed history of your house. Okay, you're going to find 135 00:06:56,160 --> 00:06:59,279 Speaker 1: a guy in birkenstocks stocks like playing a recorder. You'll 136 00:06:59,279 --> 00:07:02,080 Speaker 1: probably find that. Sure, you might smell some incense. And 137 00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:04,480 Speaker 1: you want to get the deeds and trace back the 138 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:07,560 Speaker 1: deeds to the original owner. If that's what your ultimate 139 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:10,920 Speaker 1: goal is, to find out who originally built our own 140 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:13,400 Speaker 1: your home. You're also going to find on file. Um, 141 00:07:13,520 --> 00:07:15,360 Speaker 1: and what you would take I guess is your plot 142 00:07:15,440 --> 00:07:19,120 Speaker 1: number or your address, which it can change, which is 143 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:21,640 Speaker 1: why it's a good idea. To know your plot number. 144 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:24,080 Speaker 1: That doesn't change, right, I would say, Actually, if you 145 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:26,760 Speaker 1: have a house that's sent years old, chances are your 146 00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:30,400 Speaker 1: address did change over the years, especially if they doled 147 00:07:30,440 --> 00:07:36,000 Speaker 1: it out kind of haphazardly out the h the when 148 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:39,360 Speaker 1: somebody builds a new house or something like that. Nobody 149 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:42,320 Speaker 1: likes to be you know, seven thirty five and a half. 150 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:47,800 Speaker 1: I was a quarter in the l A. My apartment was. Yeah, 151 00:07:47,840 --> 00:07:52,720 Speaker 1: it was seven something in a quarter. Because I was 152 00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:56,600 Speaker 1: in a four plex apartment building. I thought below half 153 00:07:56,680 --> 00:07:59,880 Speaker 1: they just started assigning letters. Do this is l A 154 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:03,520 Speaker 1: because I think they have eights and sixteen people, just 155 00:08:03,640 --> 00:08:06,840 Speaker 1: like Crampton and Linen closets. Right. Another thing you can 156 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:08,760 Speaker 1: look for, Josh, is have you ever heard of a 157 00:08:08,840 --> 00:08:12,240 Speaker 1: Sandborn map? I hadn't until I read this, and I 158 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:15,120 Speaker 1: went and did a little research on Sandborn, and god, 159 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:19,880 Speaker 1: they were interesting. The Sandborn map company was out of Michigan, 160 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:24,720 Speaker 1: I believe, and they serviced and not in any kind 161 00:08:24,760 --> 00:08:29,119 Speaker 1: of dirty way. The fire insurance industry. Apparently insurance maps 162 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:32,320 Speaker 1: were big as a whole back then. Yeah, if you were, 163 00:08:32,520 --> 00:08:35,480 Speaker 1: you know, located in Delaware, if your insurance company was 164 00:08:35,520 --> 00:08:38,120 Speaker 1: located in Delaware, and you had somebody in Taos, New 165 00:08:38,160 --> 00:08:42,240 Speaker 1: Mexico who wanted fire insurance from you. Um, what are 166 00:08:42,240 --> 00:08:43,960 Speaker 1: you gonna do? Send some guy out to look at 167 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:47,240 Speaker 1: every single one? Now, your contract with the Sandborn Map 168 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:53,640 Speaker 1: Company to make maps of twelve thousand cities and towns 169 00:08:54,280 --> 00:08:57,719 Speaker 1: around the United States and from eighteen sixty seven and 170 00:08:57,800 --> 00:09:02,680 Speaker 1: nineteen seventies and drawn aerial maps. And these things were detailed, man, 171 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:07,160 Speaker 1: I mean like they they look like um land use 172 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:11,240 Speaker 1: maps of today. Um Like there's not a little tiles 173 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:13,000 Speaker 1: drawn in or bricks or anything like that, but I 174 00:09:13,040 --> 00:09:15,880 Speaker 1: mean like they're detailed, Like here's the closest fire hydrant. 175 00:09:15,960 --> 00:09:18,760 Speaker 1: Here's how many sprinklers this house has. Here's where the 176 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:22,040 Speaker 1: windows are. Here's what the building nearby is used for. 177 00:09:22,280 --> 00:09:24,160 Speaker 1: I was looking at one. I can't remember what town 178 00:09:24,160 --> 00:09:26,480 Speaker 1: it was, but there was like the foundry or the 179 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:28,880 Speaker 1: old foundry, and it said like vacant. And then there's 180 00:09:28,920 --> 00:09:31,520 Speaker 1: the other foundry nearby, and here's these houses. Is the 181 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:34,280 Speaker 1: drawing of a city, And they did it all over 182 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:37,200 Speaker 1: the place. And again they did it too for the 183 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:40,080 Speaker 1: fire insurance industry. But these towns also got copies of 184 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:41,560 Speaker 1: these maps, and a lot of them have them on 185 00:09:41,679 --> 00:09:45,600 Speaker 1: file because it was for the fire insurance. Was why 186 00:09:45,640 --> 00:09:48,040 Speaker 1: you get detailed like where the windows and doors were. 187 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:51,360 Speaker 1: And I think it also says what materials your house 188 00:09:51,440 --> 00:09:53,840 Speaker 1: was made up. Right. They also did them in Mexico 189 00:09:54,120 --> 00:09:59,960 Speaker 1: and Canada. They also did um maps on sugar refinery 190 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:05,720 Speaker 1: in places like Cuba and whiskey distilleries throughout the country. Um, 191 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:09,360 Speaker 1: because those things tend to explode. And uh yeah, they 192 00:10:09,520 --> 00:10:12,480 Speaker 1: the Sandborn company basically made it so that you can 193 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:15,080 Speaker 1: find what your house looked like any any time during 194 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:18,040 Speaker 1: this period or where what else is around. It's really 195 00:10:18,040 --> 00:10:21,480 Speaker 1: cool because they also included street names and addresses. So 196 00:10:21,520 --> 00:10:23,840 Speaker 1: if you're if your city has a Sandborn map, you 197 00:10:23,880 --> 00:10:28,120 Speaker 1: are in luck. Yes, agreed. Um. The other thing you 198 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:30,280 Speaker 1: can do is well, if you if you are able 199 00:10:30,280 --> 00:10:33,600 Speaker 1: to trace the deed back to the original owner, you 200 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:35,439 Speaker 1: can go to the internet. Then if you've got a name, 201 00:10:35,480 --> 00:10:37,800 Speaker 1: it's always worth a try. Oh, definitely, because you never 202 00:10:37,840 --> 00:10:40,160 Speaker 1: know if someone back then it was noteworthy enough to 203 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:43,240 Speaker 1: be included somewhere in the historical records on the net. 204 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:46,480 Speaker 1: Right you and you you if you can't get the deed, 205 00:10:46,679 --> 00:10:50,680 Speaker 1: but you can if you have other records like surveys, 206 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:56,120 Speaker 1: tax assessors, census um records. Uh, they'll have the name 207 00:10:56,440 --> 00:10:59,600 Speaker 1: and ages and occupations of everybody in the house occupation. 208 00:10:59,640 --> 00:11:02,760 Speaker 1: That's kind cool, it is very cool. Um, well we'd 209 00:11:02,760 --> 00:11:06,280 Speaker 1: be what would we be back then? Yeah? Oh I 210 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:09,120 Speaker 1: was a cobbler for sure, were you? Yeah? Yeah, Cooper? 211 00:11:09,559 --> 00:11:14,880 Speaker 1: Really wow? I underestimated you, Jerry, what about you? She 212 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:19,199 Speaker 1: has no idea? And also you can find the occupations 213 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:23,520 Speaker 1: of the people who own the house through a reverse 214 00:11:23,600 --> 00:11:28,120 Speaker 1: telephone book. Yes, the polk the polk reverse telephone directory. Yeah, 215 00:11:28,160 --> 00:11:30,320 Speaker 1: did you know about these? Had no idea that. It's 216 00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:32,400 Speaker 1: just such a smart thing, and it's so it sounds 217 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:35,280 Speaker 1: so old timey reverse telephone directory. Yeah. And that means 218 00:11:35,280 --> 00:11:37,920 Speaker 1: you can search by the address. If you don't have 219 00:11:37,920 --> 00:11:41,040 Speaker 1: the name, right, you search by address and then it 220 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:42,640 Speaker 1: takes you over the name and that will be at 221 00:11:42,679 --> 00:11:45,320 Speaker 1: your library. So now we've moved on from the County Cord. 222 00:11:45,720 --> 00:11:48,160 Speaker 1: I'm sorry I forgot to tell everybody we're at the library. 223 00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:50,800 Speaker 1: Were the library here? That's why it's so quiet. Yeah, 224 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:53,840 Speaker 1: So that's where you can find the polk directory, and 225 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:56,000 Speaker 1: that's where you can find the occupation, which I think 226 00:11:56,040 --> 00:11:57,920 Speaker 1: is probably one of the more interesting things. You can't 227 00:11:57,920 --> 00:12:00,680 Speaker 1: in the census records too, well, what if you can't 228 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:03,240 Speaker 1: find it? All? Right, So now you've got we're also 229 00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:06,520 Speaker 1: we're in the library still so U sorry. Now now 230 00:12:06,600 --> 00:12:09,800 Speaker 1: you've got the name or one of the names of 231 00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:13,359 Speaker 1: one of the homeowners who lived in the house before you. 232 00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:17,319 Speaker 1: Now it can get interested, right because I suggested the internet. 233 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:20,800 Speaker 1: If the internet uh comes up empty, which it likely 234 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:23,640 Speaker 1: will not likely, but it may, am I that means 235 00:12:23,679 --> 00:12:27,360 Speaker 1: you need to look at something called microfiche. Yes, and 236 00:12:27,440 --> 00:12:31,600 Speaker 1: if you're under oh i'd say probably thirty years old, 237 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:36,479 Speaker 1: you probably have no idea what microfiche is. So microfiche is, um, 238 00:12:36,520 --> 00:12:39,120 Speaker 1: it's micro film. I don't know why they call it 239 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:41,400 Speaker 1: micro fisi instead of micro film. Someone will know and 240 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:44,120 Speaker 1: we'll find out. Yes, Um, basically, it's a ton of 241 00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:46,560 Speaker 1: information on a very tiny strip and you use a 242 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:49,959 Speaker 1: little magnifying glass. Actually it's not a little magnifying glass, 243 00:12:50,040 --> 00:12:53,080 Speaker 1: is kind of big machine. Right. You can spin through. 244 00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:56,240 Speaker 1: You got this cool little dial old timing, and you 245 00:12:56,240 --> 00:13:00,280 Speaker 1: can spin through and find um newspaper clippings used to 246 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:02,800 Speaker 1: use it. I'm sure too, right, And yeah, I was 247 00:13:02,840 --> 00:13:05,520 Speaker 1: never a microfiche, whiz, but I have used it. It's 248 00:13:05,520 --> 00:13:07,920 Speaker 1: pretty fun, but you have to cross references. Like you 249 00:13:07,920 --> 00:13:09,480 Speaker 1: you look for what you're looking for, and then you 250 00:13:09,559 --> 00:13:12,280 Speaker 1: go through like a decade of newspapers on one film, 251 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:17,240 Speaker 1: and you can find press clippings about whoever's owned your house. 252 00:13:17,760 --> 00:13:21,960 Speaker 1: You might find that there was a murder there, or that, um, 253 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:25,240 Speaker 1: there were several murders there. Because frankly, Chuck, isn't that 254 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:27,760 Speaker 1: what everybody is doing? A house history is ultimately looking for. 255 00:13:27,880 --> 00:13:30,040 Speaker 1: You know, it's funny, I should show you my note 256 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:32,480 Speaker 1: right here. The real reason is to find out if 257 00:13:32,520 --> 00:13:34,800 Speaker 1: anyone's been murdered there exactly. That's the number one reason 258 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:36,520 Speaker 1: I would say anyone would look at their house history. 259 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:38,640 Speaker 1: I would say, let's cut to the chase. But man, 260 00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:40,360 Speaker 1: it took us a long time to get to the 261 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:43,400 Speaker 1: ultimate point. I know. Yeah. Um. I do have one 262 00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:46,480 Speaker 1: more point about microfiche though, because a lot of people 263 00:13:46,520 --> 00:13:49,360 Speaker 1: think they're like Google Masters and research on Google line. 264 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:52,240 Speaker 1: I'm so good at it. You don't know research, dude, 265 00:13:52,280 --> 00:13:56,400 Speaker 1: until you get on microfiche. That's where it's really hours 266 00:13:56,400 --> 00:13:59,840 Speaker 1: and hours in the library, and it'll seriously test your 267 00:13:59,840 --> 00:14:03,360 Speaker 1: investigative skills. Yeah, these people who like write a book 268 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:06,640 Speaker 1: based on a year of experience that they took a 269 00:14:06,720 --> 00:14:09,320 Speaker 1: year out of life to go do something and then 270 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:11,679 Speaker 1: they wrote a book about it. Those people don't know 271 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:15,080 Speaker 1: writing a book. Talk to like Norman Mailer, Go talk 272 00:14:15,160 --> 00:14:19,880 Speaker 1: to like um Robert Woodward. Go talk to these people 273 00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:23,760 Speaker 1: who actually hand to go do research on micro feache 274 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:26,680 Speaker 1: and didn't just blog about something they were doing for 275 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:29,920 Speaker 1: a year. It's not writing a book. That's called lucking out, 276 00:14:30,360 --> 00:14:37,120 Speaker 1: it's called dropping out. Wow, so chuck microfiche. Are we 277 00:14:37,160 --> 00:14:39,560 Speaker 1: done with that part? Uh? Yeah, I think so. Um. 278 00:14:39,640 --> 00:14:41,440 Speaker 1: The library is also we're going to find the census 279 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:44,200 Speaker 1: records so that you were talking about. Wait, I thought 280 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:46,840 Speaker 1: that be at the at the city hall. It could 281 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:48,720 Speaker 1: be in both. Actually, if you strike out at the 282 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:50,560 Speaker 1: city hall, you can look at the library at the 283 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:52,400 Speaker 1: hall at the city Hall. And the other thing you 284 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:54,560 Speaker 1: can look at the library is look up some books. 285 00:14:54,560 --> 00:14:57,480 Speaker 1: There may be a book called the history of East 286 00:14:57,560 --> 00:15:00,800 Speaker 1: Lake in Atlanta, and start thumbing through it, and there 287 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:02,400 Speaker 1: may be a picture of your house, and you know, 288 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:05,000 Speaker 1: the original mayor of Eastlake lived there. And when you 289 00:15:05,040 --> 00:15:07,600 Speaker 1: find that out, try to contain yourself. Remember you're in 290 00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:12,280 Speaker 1: a library, don't shout funny. You should bring up east 291 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:16,000 Speaker 1: like Chuck, because number one, that's where you live. Indeed, 292 00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:19,600 Speaker 1: and number two, Emily wrote about Eastlake. She did some 293 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:22,160 Speaker 1: research on Eastlake, right yeah, I think she in order 294 00:15:22,160 --> 00:15:23,720 Speaker 1: to write the article, she just did a little digging 295 00:15:23,760 --> 00:15:26,320 Speaker 1: around about her own hood to uh kind of live 296 00:15:26,360 --> 00:15:29,400 Speaker 1: the experience maybe, and she found out some pretty cool stuff. Actually, 297 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:33,160 Speaker 1: I had no idea she did. Eastlake is probably best 298 00:15:33,160 --> 00:15:35,000 Speaker 1: known now as the home of the Eastlake Country Club 299 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:39,760 Speaker 1: Old country Club, host of the recent PGA tournament there 300 00:15:40,520 --> 00:15:42,640 Speaker 1: for they've been hosting it for a while, right, yeah, 301 00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:44,480 Speaker 1: they usually have one tournament there every year, but now 302 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:47,800 Speaker 1: I think they finished the season there every year. So 303 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:49,800 Speaker 1: Tiger Woods was just in town. Hun, he was right 304 00:15:49,840 --> 00:15:51,680 Speaker 1: across the street from me. He's kind of foul mouth, 305 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:54,560 Speaker 1: he does, actually, And I was able to make a 306 00:15:54,560 --> 00:15:57,240 Speaker 1: couple of hundred bucks parking cars in my yard. That's right. 307 00:15:57,520 --> 00:16:02,040 Speaker 1: Last year, Chuck um it up a bloody Mary stand 308 00:16:02,040 --> 00:16:04,440 Speaker 1: in his front yard and I was able to sell 309 00:16:04,480 --> 00:16:08,240 Speaker 1: one before the cops came and h took the joint down. Chuck. 310 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:10,960 Speaker 1: Chuck Bryant is what we call a hustler. I thought 311 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:13,880 Speaker 1: that was a sterling idea. It was a great idea. 312 00:16:14,240 --> 00:16:16,080 Speaker 1: You know, you didn't have a liquor license. Yeah, that 313 00:16:16,520 --> 00:16:19,440 Speaker 1: was the only rub there. Soeeah, I was shut down 314 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:21,680 Speaker 1: to it. Sweet. So East Like, as it turns out, 315 00:16:21,720 --> 00:16:23,240 Speaker 1: back in the day, the turn of the century, it 316 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:27,240 Speaker 1: was a farm five miles outside of the downtown center 317 00:16:27,240 --> 00:16:29,280 Speaker 1: of Atlanta. This was most of America at the turn 318 00:16:29,320 --> 00:16:33,040 Speaker 1: of the last century. Absolutely, we should say the last century. Uh. 319 00:16:33,080 --> 00:16:35,400 Speaker 1: And it had two creeks and a five spring watershed. 320 00:16:35,640 --> 00:16:38,360 Speaker 1: And the owner of a streetcar company in Atlanta bought 321 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:41,840 Speaker 1: this farm. He damned it up and created a lake 322 00:16:42,160 --> 00:16:45,480 Speaker 1: and like a beach community around this lake, and the 323 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:48,960 Speaker 1: old built hotels. And it was actually one of the 324 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:52,040 Speaker 1: first quote unquote suburbs of Atlanta, which is funny because 325 00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:55,160 Speaker 1: it's the suburbs in Atlanta. Now, are you know, forty 326 00:16:55,160 --> 00:16:57,680 Speaker 1: miles away. Yeah, if you're a fan of urban sprawl, 327 00:16:57,760 --> 00:17:01,080 Speaker 1: you're gonna love Atlanta. But East Like is Atlanta now, 328 00:17:01,120 --> 00:17:03,960 Speaker 1: it's not considered by any stretch of them very much. 329 00:17:04,160 --> 00:17:07,359 Speaker 1: Five miles from downtown is that it's just a neighborhood, 330 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:09,479 Speaker 1: although I suspect with traffic the way it is. It 331 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:12,160 Speaker 1: takes as long to get downtown from East Lake these 332 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:15,960 Speaker 1: days as it did in Now you kidding me, No, 333 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:18,320 Speaker 1: I just shoot down to cab Avenue turns into Marriad 334 00:17:18,359 --> 00:17:23,080 Speaker 1: and you're there. Uh so the horse and buggy that 335 00:17:23,119 --> 00:17:27,120 Speaker 1: was quicker, you think, Uh yeah, Okay, Now you have 336 00:17:27,359 --> 00:17:31,639 Speaker 1: hopefully found out the owner of your house, the original owner. 337 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:34,080 Speaker 1: You've gotten some information, and you may have gotten some 338 00:17:34,119 --> 00:17:37,520 Speaker 1: information on the building of your house because you said 339 00:17:37,520 --> 00:17:39,200 Speaker 1: the reason you would really want to find out to 340 00:17:39,240 --> 00:17:41,280 Speaker 1: see if anyone was killed there. There are other reasons 341 00:17:41,280 --> 00:17:45,160 Speaker 1: to like if like you were talking about, architecturally, there's 342 00:17:45,359 --> 00:17:48,120 Speaker 1: all kinds of architectural oddities. Many times in these old 343 00:17:48,119 --> 00:17:51,159 Speaker 1: houses don't make any sense unless you find out the 344 00:17:51,200 --> 00:17:54,520 Speaker 1: history of the home. Yeah, Emily says, um that you 345 00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:56,880 Speaker 1: might find out that your kitchen is where you're living 346 00:17:57,000 --> 00:17:59,240 Speaker 1: room you should be, which explains some of the odd 347 00:17:59,280 --> 00:18:02,720 Speaker 1: angles as you which you're talking about your house. Actually, 348 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:05,600 Speaker 1: we don't really have anything that odd, except for the 349 00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:07,680 Speaker 1: flooding issue in the basement, which I can't figure out. 350 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:10,439 Speaker 1: But like something more interesting. Let's say you have a 351 00:18:10,520 --> 00:18:14,320 Speaker 1: window in your uh this little tiny closet and you think, 352 00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:16,480 Speaker 1: why would there ever be a silly little window there? 353 00:18:16,480 --> 00:18:19,280 Speaker 1: And then you find out that it was a back 354 00:18:19,359 --> 00:18:22,520 Speaker 1: room distillery during prohibition or something. You never know. The 355 00:18:22,560 --> 00:18:24,400 Speaker 1: house I grew up in as a child in Talita 356 00:18:24,960 --> 00:18:28,479 Speaker 1: had a secret passageway, no way, I kid you not, 357 00:18:29,080 --> 00:18:31,520 Speaker 1: in a in the back of a linen closet which 358 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:35,080 Speaker 1: the walls in the back were painted black. Um. If 359 00:18:35,119 --> 00:18:37,520 Speaker 1: you pushed on the back wall, you went through a 360 00:18:37,520 --> 00:18:39,479 Speaker 1: little door and you crawled through when you were on 361 00:18:39,560 --> 00:18:41,400 Speaker 1: the steps going down to the basement on the other 362 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:43,200 Speaker 1: side of the house. So how old was the house? 363 00:18:43,240 --> 00:18:47,840 Speaker 1: Do you know? I don't actually like seventies ranch, I 364 00:18:47,880 --> 00:18:51,760 Speaker 1: don't think so. No, it's definitely, uh fifties at least. Yeah, 365 00:18:51,840 --> 00:18:53,359 Speaker 1: but it was fun to play. How you can go 366 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:55,520 Speaker 1: seeking there? Well, if you, I bet, if you have 367 00:18:55,880 --> 00:18:58,800 Speaker 1: some architectural audity in your home and you you know 368 00:18:58,840 --> 00:19:00,560 Speaker 1: you're into this kind of thing, would be looking into 369 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:04,360 Speaker 1: for sure. Definitely. Um. Also, if you are a renovator 370 00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:08,240 Speaker 1: and you've been tasked with restoring a house, I mean, 371 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:10,240 Speaker 1: how are you how else you going to find out? Yeah? 372 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:13,280 Speaker 1: If you're really big into conservation and you have a say, 373 00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:15,560 Speaker 1: an old Victorian home and you really want to bring 374 00:19:15,600 --> 00:19:18,800 Speaker 1: it back to its former glory. You should, you know, 375 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:21,879 Speaker 1: respect the original plans of the house. Definitely, and you 376 00:19:21,920 --> 00:19:23,800 Speaker 1: can also charge an arm and a leg if you 377 00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:29,320 Speaker 1: do all this extra research to renovate to the original state. Absolutely, 378 00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:32,080 Speaker 1: and chuck um. One last thing I wanted to mention 379 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:39,520 Speaker 1: um ghosts. Sure, I didn't know this. In California and Hawaii, 380 00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:43,480 Speaker 1: you are required to disclose any ghostly activity in a 381 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:45,760 Speaker 1: house when you're selling it. Yeah, I didn't know that. 382 00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:48,520 Speaker 1: I didn't either. But if you suspect that there's ghostly 383 00:19:48,560 --> 00:19:51,560 Speaker 1: activity in your house, and you don't live in any 384 00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:55,600 Speaker 1: of these states, you might go back and find out 385 00:19:55,680 --> 00:19:58,160 Speaker 1: that there was that murder that you've been looking for. Yeah, 386 00:19:58,200 --> 00:19:59,960 Speaker 1: and how cool is that? What do you want to 387 00:20:00,240 --> 00:20:01,800 Speaker 1: part or that? Yeah, if you found out someone is 388 00:20:01,880 --> 00:20:04,240 Speaker 1: murdered in your house, wouldn't that be cool? That wouldn't 389 00:20:04,240 --> 00:20:07,119 Speaker 1: scare me. I think it was neat unless obviously it 390 00:20:07,160 --> 00:20:12,400 Speaker 1: turned into like an amiable horror type of scene. But well, exactly, 391 00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:14,080 Speaker 1: that's a good reason, I would say, if you have 392 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:15,760 Speaker 1: blood coming out of your wallpaper, that's a good reason 393 00:20:15,760 --> 00:20:18,640 Speaker 1: to research the history. And the other The other final 394 00:20:18,680 --> 00:20:21,320 Speaker 1: reason I think is if, um, you might find out 395 00:20:21,359 --> 00:20:23,480 Speaker 1: that someone famous used to own it, or someone famous 396 00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:26,040 Speaker 1: might have stayed there, and you could potentially get it 397 00:20:26,119 --> 00:20:30,560 Speaker 1: listed as a historical site and save that house forever. Yeah. 398 00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:32,560 Speaker 1: I'll bet your house ends up on the register in 399 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:36,119 Speaker 1: fifty years. Okay, but I'm gonna find out the history 400 00:20:36,119 --> 00:20:37,840 Speaker 1: of it though, all right, are you really? Yeah, I'm 401 00:20:37,880 --> 00:20:40,719 Speaker 1: gonna look into it when happens. You're not just saying that? Do? 402 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:44,160 Speaker 1: I usually not follow through my podcast promises. Well, if 403 00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:46,720 Speaker 1: you have a really interesting history for your house and 404 00:20:46,760 --> 00:20:52,160 Speaker 1: you want a little more detail, you can read Emily's article, Um, 405 00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:55,480 Speaker 1: how to find the history of your home. You can 406 00:20:55,480 --> 00:20:58,120 Speaker 1: type that in the handy search part works dot com 407 00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:00,280 Speaker 1: go find a Sandborn map just to look at him. Yeah, 408 00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:02,920 Speaker 1: they are pretty interesting. You can find them online. Um, 409 00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:07,080 Speaker 1: in some cases not all um. And since I said 410 00:21:07,160 --> 00:21:09,400 Speaker 1: handy search bar, that means, of course that it's time 411 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:14,919 Speaker 1: for a listener maid listener mail Josh. Before we do that, 412 00:21:15,080 --> 00:21:18,400 Speaker 1: I just wanted to say that give a special thank 413 00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:21,320 Speaker 1: you to the boys and the Henry Clay people. Oh yeah, 414 00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:25,119 Speaker 1: I'm I'm holding their couzy right now right. Uh. If 415 00:21:25,119 --> 00:21:27,240 Speaker 1: you remember a few weeks ago, we mentioned that some 416 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:29,880 Speaker 1: band in southern California rote us and they were fans 417 00:21:29,920 --> 00:21:31,960 Speaker 1: of the show, and I like the CD, and I 418 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:34,320 Speaker 1: tried to get everyone together to go to the performance, 419 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:37,119 Speaker 1: which was a few nights ago, and I was the 420 00:21:37,119 --> 00:21:39,280 Speaker 1: only one able to make it, unfortunately. So I met 421 00:21:39,280 --> 00:21:40,879 Speaker 1: the boys in the band. I met Joey and Andy, 422 00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:43,840 Speaker 1: the two brothers, and I met the drummer. I believe 423 00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:45,719 Speaker 1: his name was Mike, and that was the only other 424 00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:48,879 Speaker 1: guy I met. Hung out, had some beers. They're super 425 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:53,680 Speaker 1: cool kids, very very talented. And remember we said that 426 00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:54,919 Speaker 1: we were going to be at that show, and we 427 00:21:54,960 --> 00:22:00,240 Speaker 1: actually had two fans come out seeking us out. And 428 00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:03,399 Speaker 1: you introduced your friend justin to them as me as Josh. 429 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:05,680 Speaker 1: I thought it was kind of funny. This lady comes 430 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:07,240 Speaker 1: up in the lobby after the show and I'm hanging 431 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:08,520 Speaker 1: out with the band, and I think your name was 432 00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:11,280 Speaker 1: Jeannie and Jeannie. If I got that wrong, I apologize. 433 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:13,560 Speaker 1: I had a few beers at that point, and Jeanne 434 00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:15,840 Speaker 1: and her husband came up and introduced themselves and they 435 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:19,600 Speaker 1: were super nice and very complimentary, and they came to 436 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:23,119 Speaker 1: the show on our recommendation and rate Josh and Chuck Sider. 437 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:25,960 Speaker 1: So in the city of Atlanta. We had two people 438 00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:28,320 Speaker 1: interested in coming to see us. It's awesome, which is 439 00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:31,000 Speaker 1: pretty cool. Well, that's not bad. It's like the people 440 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:33,760 Speaker 1: in Atlanta listening to us, and it was cool. I 441 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:35,480 Speaker 1: talked you know, you know, me and my band stuff. 442 00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:37,680 Speaker 1: I just peppered them with questions about being in a band. 443 00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:40,160 Speaker 1: I feel, I know we hit it off. I feel 444 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:43,480 Speaker 1: like an honorary Henry Clay person. And you may meet 445 00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:45,000 Speaker 1: him in December if you come to l A with me. 446 00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:47,359 Speaker 1: I'm not you're not gonna be able to come up. 447 00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:51,679 Speaker 1: So you got any letters? Yeah, I got a letter. Um, 448 00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:54,120 Speaker 1: this is from Emily, and we're gonna see her last 449 00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:58,000 Speaker 1: name because it's a special thing. Emily friedened All wrote us, 450 00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:00,359 Speaker 1: I've been a big fan of the podcast since I 451 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:02,640 Speaker 1: discovered them in July. I was working at temp job, 452 00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:06,160 Speaker 1: filing and making binders for eight hours at a time 453 00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:09,600 Speaker 1: in a back room of a lighting company. Not fun. Um. 454 00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:11,480 Speaker 1: The podcast helper get through all this. We get a 455 00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:14,439 Speaker 1: lot of these emails of people born jobs. And she 456 00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:16,600 Speaker 1: thanks us for that, and then she says, in fact, 457 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:19,840 Speaker 1: it got me so excited about how stuff works and 458 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:22,080 Speaker 1: the topics you covered. I decided it would be kind 459 00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:23,520 Speaker 1: of a dream gig to be able to write some 460 00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:25,760 Speaker 1: of the articles that you covered. So I went online 461 00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:28,520 Speaker 1: submitted materials to be a freelance writer. And I just 462 00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:30,480 Speaker 1: found out a few hours ago that I was accepted. 463 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:33,800 Speaker 1: She's a colleague and only is now a co worker, 464 00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:36,040 Speaker 1: and she says she can't wait to start rolling on 465 00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:39,000 Speaker 1: a project. And have you guys to thank for inspiration 466 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:42,280 Speaker 1: and for helping me put myself out there. And I 467 00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:46,120 Speaker 1: emailed her a few times and told her congratulations, welcome aboard, 468 00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:47,879 Speaker 1: and you know, we'll try and pick out one of 469 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:51,440 Speaker 1: our articles the podcast. That's awesome. Congratulations Only So she's 470 00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:54,600 Speaker 1: she's a co worker officially, Sweet Chuck, is that the 471 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:58,520 Speaker 1: only letter you got? Okay, Um, let's plug Kiva. Yeah, 472 00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:01,879 Speaker 1: go ahead. So ok had the bright idea of setting 473 00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:04,800 Speaker 1: up a Kiva dot org. Stuff you should know team 474 00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:07,520 Speaker 1: uh And if you're not familiar with Kiva, it is 475 00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:11,719 Speaker 1: a micro lending website. It's a nonprofit UH, meaning you 476 00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:14,240 Speaker 1: don't get any return on investment, but you do get 477 00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:17,880 Speaker 1: your investment back if you choose and loans as small 478 00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:21,359 Speaker 1: as twenty five dollars go to fund bigger loans for 479 00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:26,359 Speaker 1: entrepreneurs in um developing countries, and we talked about it 480 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:29,680 Speaker 1: on the micro Lending uh podcast. If you want to 481 00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:31,800 Speaker 1: familiarize yourself with that, you can go listen to that 482 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:35,159 Speaker 1: when it was pretty good. So you can go to www. 483 00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:40,199 Speaker 1: Dot Kiva dot org, slash teams, slash stuff you should know, 484 00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:43,679 Speaker 1: and you'll come to the Stuff you Should Known Nation's 485 00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:47,360 Speaker 1: team page. You can donate whatever you want as little 486 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:49,080 Speaker 1: as twenty five bucks. And like I said, don't forget 487 00:24:49,119 --> 00:24:52,600 Speaker 1: you this, this is repaid. The loan is repaid. Uh. 488 00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:55,159 Speaker 1: They also have gift certificates on Kiva dot org and 489 00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:58,280 Speaker 1: it's a really good cost. And um, we've already got 490 00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:01,359 Speaker 1: seven fifty bucks done age I and what like twenty 491 00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:03,720 Speaker 1: team members huh. And we're stoked and we want to 492 00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:08,040 Speaker 1: call out again the lousy Colbert Report and to see 493 00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:10,480 Speaker 1: that learning email we got from somebody. Yeah, yeah, it 494 00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:12,479 Speaker 1: was like don't do you know what happens when you 495 00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:15,480 Speaker 1: call out student Colbert? Yes, you get his attention, which 496 00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:17,840 Speaker 1: is exactly what we're trying to do. So we're calling 497 00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:20,359 Speaker 1: we're calling them Outain is lousy fans who are cheap 498 00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:23,040 Speaker 1: and we want to Bury. We're the ones that crossover 499 00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:26,400 Speaker 1: between share of course, so we we want to beat 500 00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:29,600 Speaker 1: them and get their attention and challenge into a kiva off. 501 00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:32,640 Speaker 1: So if you have an interesting story about your house, 502 00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:35,320 Speaker 1: if there's a murder there chucking, I definitely want to 503 00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:38,120 Speaker 1: hear about it. 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